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DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. BigObject vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. BigObject vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. SwayDB

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NameAmazon Redshift  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLarge scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence toolsAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesDistributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Key-value store
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Score17.94
Rank#34  Overall
#21  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#333  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#323  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­redshiftbigobject.iowww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storeswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­redshiftdocs.bigobject.iowww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-store
DeveloperAmazon (based on PostgreSQL)BigObject, Inc.IBMSimer Plaha
Initial release2012201520172018
Current release2.0
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree community edition availablecommercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageCC and C++Scala
Server operating systemshostedLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Linux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesno
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononono
Secondary indexesrestrictedyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infodoes not fully support an SQL-standardSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBCC
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin PythonLuayesno
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneActive-active shard replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoinformational only, not enforced by the systemyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)No - written data is immutableyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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